Aalten is a municipality and a town in the eastern Netherlands. The former municipality of Dinxperlo has been merged with Aalten on January 1, 2005.
Population centres
Aalten, Barlo, Bredevoort, Dale, Dinxperlo, Haart, Heurne, IJzerlo, 't Klooster and Lintelo.
Bredevoort
Bredevoort is a small town of about 1600 inhabitants, between Aalten and Winterswijk.
Since 1993, Bredevoort presents itself as Bredevoort boekenstad (Bredevoort book town), after the examples of Hay-on-Wye in Wales and Redu in Belgium. There are now more than twenty second-hand book shops in the town.
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Last updated: 10-18-2005 05:48:42
